DMSU 256 Clinical Practicum III
This course is designed to develop and improve upon students' independent ultrasonic skills in a diagnostic environment and may include scanning in campus laboratories, private offices, hospital rotations, and outpatient radiology centers. Sonography experience depends on the specialty track in which the student is enrolled.
Hours Weekly
24 hours per week at off-campus clinical site
Course Objectives
- Relate the skills acquired during lectures to evaluate sonographic pathologies in an intermediate clinical setting.
- Formulate and support verbally diagnostic conclusions as they relate to an intermediate clinical setting.
- Apply accepted procedures and protocols for all learned sonographic studies to an intermediate clinical setting.
- Demonstrate time management skills while performing sonographic examinations in an intermediate clinical setting.
- Demonstrate appropriate patient care skills.
Course Objectives
- Relate the skills acquired during lectures to evaluate sonographic pathologies in an intermediate clinical setting.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded Competencies
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Competency rubrics
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
- Formulate and support verbally diagnostic conclusions as they relate to an intermediate clinical setting.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded evaluations by the clinical instructors
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Monthly evaluation rubrics
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
- Apply accepted procedures and protocols for all learned sonographic studies to an intermediate clinical setting.
This objective is a course Goal Only
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Graded competencies
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Competency rubrics
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
- Demonstrate time management skills while performing sonographic examinations in an intermediate clinical setting.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Monthly clinical coordinator evaluations
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Monthly evaluation rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
Identify and demonstrate the role of the student as a sonographer.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level general sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level adult cardiac sonographers in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
Degree: Diagnostic Medical Sonography - A.A.S. Degree (Career)
To prepare competent entry-level vascular technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.
- Demonstrate appropriate patient care skills.
This objective is a course Goal Only
Learning Activity Artifact
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Technological Literacy Rubric